hi we are open for submissions for our third (!) issue until september 1. you can refer to our guidelines and also read our past issues for a sense of what we’re looking for
24, nyc, mfa candidate looking for any and all connection as long as you’re willing to go out in the rain, know how to cook, love the sopranos or collage
good morning we are open for submissions for our summer issue. please send fiction, poetry, and essays to angelfoodmag [at] gmail [dot com]. our guidelines are here:
for our inaugural Gadabout Town, we asked a group of writers and editors the one thing we have always really wanted to know: what they have in their bags
“Do we know the number of dead in Iraq? Is our sin the sin of being slaughtered outside of sequence, not in line?” read Moonspotting: a Manifesto by Zainab Hussein online now
"Is existence valued in Fahrenheit and Celsius and oil?" we have two new pieces online by Zainab Hussein about eclipse, Eid, and the value of human life:
one time a bunch of agents were arguing about the difference between literary + commercial fiction & I said that in commercial fiction people are allowed to get off and in literary fiction they’re not, and while it was a joke…….it sparked this prompt
“I have known that my sister thought my marriage was a mistake ever since she turned to me one day and said, I think your marriage is a mistake.” new fiction on the website from
@michellelynking
"Oops, for a second there I almost forgot about
my agony" online now an excerpt from Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook, forthcoming from Nightboat Books in May 2024
it might be because i'm literally the least photogenic person in the world, but i really don't get why people like taking photos so much! i'm not trying to be edgy, i just truly don't understand the point of taking photos at every social gathering ever! what do you get out of it!
while everyone is talking about essays, good and bad: i'll be editing nonfiction essays for the angels at
@angelfoodmag
, send submissions to editors [dot] angelfoodmag @ gmail [dot] com, tysm 😇💕
"You may not remember the show 24. It was very popular back then, and it was a far more effective defense of utilitarianism than Dershowitz’s book because, unlike him, it was entertaining."
“At a certain point you can’t tell if someone’s handsome or if it’s just the optical illusion of their towering. I don’t want him to touch me but I’m mad he isn’t trying.” Fiction from
@gertsofficial
on the website
and last but not least, for all you north brooklyn girlies out there, a media worker with a charmed view of the universe looking to share writing in dim bars or on the ferry
“The locker room is the source of the community pool smell, which is actually a combination of smells: chlorine and body and plant-scented cleaning solution that is designed to get rid of the body but the thing I learned is you can’t get rid of the body.”
if we were writing a personals ad it would be like: angels, 20s, nyc, seeking both literature + vibes for love and publication. email angelfoodpersonals [at] gmail [dot com]
we have removed the personals email forwarding option for logistical reasons. you are still welcome to create your own anon email to use. for best results we encourage you to be intentional and clear about what you are looking for and to try engaging w any responses sincerely
“When the second week of the job began, Poppy and David were killing her. In the Ryans’ living room, they murdered each other with foam swords painted red and blue.” a nannying horror story from
@alibanach
:
was honoured to contribute to angel food mag’s “what’s in my bag” writer convention and double honoured they chose a pic of my ex boyfriend carrying my secondhand miu miu bag as the thumbnail
“Chappell is in turns bratty, horny, contemplative, vengeful, adoring, hysterical: a twirling, fabulous ringleader.”
@jennamahale
on the princess of the midwest for issue 2:
we fell in love with this story from the first sentence, it has a video store, it has an awkward sex scene, it has celebrity fan mail, it has gynecological visits. an instant cult classic
“The only trouble is I had to stop working at the video store, at least for the time being, because babies couldn’t appreciate mass media.” ((((this and more in my new fiction for
@angelfoodmag
))))